Flash Memory Summit: Kingston Demos Forthcoming 2.5-Inch U.2 NVMe PCIe SSD

Kingston Digital, Inc. has announced the forthcoming DCU1000 2.5-Inch U.2 NVMe PCIe SSD at Flash Memory Summit 2017.

DCU1000 makes the company one of the industry’s complete providers of end-to-end data performance solutions – from server memory products to its performance NVMe SSD solutions.

During FMS, the firm and its partners provided demonstrations highlighting the performance capabilities of DCU1000, a fast NVMe SSD for the U.2 form factor. The company demonstrated multiple DCU1000 configurations including multi-million IO/s from a single server solution; a composable infrastructure solution leveraging DCU1000; and, a video wall featuring hundreds of videos streaming from a single firm’s NVMe PCIe SSD.

“With the introduction of DCU1000, we are proud that Kingston has developed the industry’s most complete family of data performance solutions inside the box that address low-latency throughput requirements across the entire data pipeline,” said Ariel Perez, business manager, SSD, Kingston. “From server memory modules to the latest SATA and PCIe NVMe SSDs, we can satisfy the data and server storage performance needs from workstations to any size data center, Cloud computing and hyperscale environments.“

DCU1000 is a solution to scale and meet the evolving data automation and performance requirements necessary as Intel recently launched its Purley Platform featuring the Xeon Scalable processor family (formerly known as ‘Skylake-SP’). The scalable processor server platform will drive PCIe adoption helping deliver innovation to data center architectures as it features 48 PCIe three lanes per processor, each supporting up to 1,000MB/s throughput.

Company’s family of ‘Server Premier‘ memory and PCIe NVMe SSD data performance solutions are available in a variety of form factors and are designed to meet the requirements of the most taxing use cases where data performance is critical to success.

To showcase firm’s products at FMS, the company worked with its partners to create demos that speak directly to the requirements of modern data centers which are rapidly evolving to accommodate cutting-edge IoT environments, artificial intelligence, high performance and enterprise computing, next-generation media and entertainment and more.

Demonstrations included:

Performance to exceed data demand

• DCU1000 high density, performance
  The firm integrates the upcoming DCU1000 U.2 NVMe SSD in a 10-bay 1U server chassis from AIC, Inc. This demo populates ten DCU1000 SSD’s (totaling 40 physical drives) in a 1U server form factor illustrating density capability and scaling of the firm’s U.2 design and the performance of NVMe.

• DCP1000 wall of video
  The firm showed approximately 500 individual videos running from a single DCP1000 NVMe PCIe SSD. The videos was displayed on a customized 42U rack with LCD screens attached broadcasting the videos.

• Composable infrastructure demo
  DCU1000 was part of live CI demo that showed dynamic assignment of DCU1000 storage devices to CPU nodes.